History 162: Lectures 11 & 12

History 263: Readings in Frontier and Western History



History 162: Lectures 11 and 12
FAMILY LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WEST

  1. Beyond "Gentle Tamers": Engendering the Western Experience
  2. To California and Oregon: Male Adventures and Family Ventures
    1. The Great Migration and the Americanization of the Far West
    2. "Seeing the Elephant"
    3. Intercultural Relations on the Overland Trail
    4. Disease and Death on the Overland Trail

  3. The Female Experience on the Overland Trail
    1. Reluctant Emigrants
    2. Labor on the Trail
    3. The Quest for Domesticity

  4. Marital Regimes, Old and New
    1. Restructuring Marital Relations in the American West
    2. "Gentile" Attacks on Mormon Polygamy: "The Twin Relics of Barbarism"

  5. The Mormon Experience in Nineteenth-Century America
    1. Genesis
    2. Exodus
    3. Crisis: The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857)

  6. Polygamy in Mormon Country
    1. Origins and Dimensions
    2. Repression and Official Retreat

  7. The Experiences of Plural Wives
    1. Ambivalence of First Wives
    2. Sisterhood of Sister Wives
    3. Interdependent Wives, Independent Women

Visuals


The Mormon Empire


Overland Trails